Internet Relay Chat is a text-based conferencing facility. Groups of people can log in to IRC servers and choose a channel to join. IRC is synchronous, which means that people can have real time conversations. The major problem with IRC is trying to make sense of the conversation on a channel when many people are speaking at once.
Some IRC based programs (i.e. Microsoft Comic Chat) allow the users to specify who they wish to speak to, and using a graphical format they can show emotions (happy, sad, angry etc.). These programs make IRC much more fun and easier to use.
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